A name and a job. Nothing else survives — and that is the finding, not a gap in our work. In the record from the very beginning.
An-tcher-f
a name in the Pyramid Texts, and nothing else
Overview
Budge's list of the principal gods mentioned in the Pyramid Texts gives each name with the passage it stands in. His entry reads in full:
An-tcher-f (Pepi I. 651) [budge-1904]
That is the whole record. A name, a hieroglyphic group, and a line reference in the pyramid of Pepi I. He does not translate it, describe it, or return to it.
This is the same shape as hesat, closed two batches ago from the same list: a god who is certainly attested, in one of the oldest religious corpora in existence, and about whom nothing beyond that attestation is recoverable here. ○ name-only is the honest grade, and inflating it would be exactly the error the grading rule exists to prevent (C348).
His neighbours in the list
The names around him are a useful check on what kind of list this is:
Ahu (Pepi II. 850) · Aker (Unas 498, 614, Teta 309) · Api (Unas 487) · Ap-uat (Unas 187) · Amen (Unas 557) · Ament (Unas 557) · Am-henth-f (Pepi I. 666) · Am-sepa-f (Pepi I. 666) · Amsu or Min (Unas 377) · Amset (Teta 60, 197) · Ana (Unas 272, 275) · Anpu (Unas 71, 207, 219) · An-mut-f (Pepi II. 772) · An-tcher-f (Pepi I. 651) · Akhet-nen-tha (Teta 307) · Asar, Osiris (passim) · Ast, Isis (Unas 181)… [budge-1904]
Alphabetical, not thematic — so his neighbours mean nothing about him. But note that the list mixes the greatest gods in Egypt with names nobody has heard of, and gives them all the same treatment: a name, a pyramid, a line. wepwawet is in here as "Ap-uat (Unas 187)," and so is Osiris, marked simply passim.
The record
Every claim above traces to a row here. Source, exact place in that source, and what it actually supports.
| Source | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* I, "Gods of the Pyramid Texts," p. 79–80 | "**An-tcher-f (Pepi I. 651)**" — the name and its Pyramid Text locus |
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* II, index | one further page reference, unread |
Sources
[budge-1904]— Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (1904), vols I–II. Public domain, archived. A transcribed name list with locus references — Budge recording rather than interpreting, which is where he is most dependable.
Open questions
- Read Pepi I, line 651. A specific line in a published text, and the single most valuable thing anyone could do for this entry. Maspero's Inscriptions des pyramides de Saqqarah is archived and covers the Pepi pyramids.
- Read the second occurrence indexed in vol. II.
- Is the name a compound sentence? Several gods in this list have the shape An-X-f — An-mut-f ("pillar of his mother") is one, and is in this corpus. If An-tcher-f parses the same way it may be a title rather than a name (the epithet trap, C300).
- Check the Pepi I line numbers around 651. If several gods in this list cluster in one spell, that spell is worth reading whole (C362) — the same method that closed six other names this batch.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ○name-only — A name and a function in a spell list. That is all that survives.
"An-tcher-f", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded name-only, retrieved 2026-08-10.